Western cyclone., 1887-10-21
KANSAS.
Condensed Reports of the Latest News
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from All Parts of the State.
Arkansas claims the best water
power in the state.
The Sunday ordinance is to be en-
forced in Lawrence.
"A daily paper will be established
at Horton after Nov. |.
In the Atchison schools there are
several hundred more girls than boys.
The Jefferson club at Lawrence
will go to Kansas City. Mo, to visit
President Cleveland.
Upon the Lincoln Centre fair
grounds there is prairie dog town in
high state of colonization"
The twentieth annual meeting of
the Kansas Academy of Science will
be held at Topeka. Oct. % to IS.
The Rising City Independent is
going TO have little fair of its own.
in which it offers years subscription
to each of the persons bringing in the
best potatoes. corn, cabbage, etc.
Jewell county has four tickets in
the field this year. viz; democratic,
republican, temperance and Knights
of Labor. This ought to give every
man chance to vote his sentiments.
Robert Burns, the contractor of
the new Washington county court
house, died at his home in the county
seat on Sunday last. aged 81. The
funeral services were held on WedneS-
day. The court house will be finished
by Mr.. Burns brother.
The Merchants Hotel in Emporia
burned Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
also the livery stable of J. r. Mckenzy
and the agricultural implement store
Of Griffith x Ewing. Loss. $4,000.
Mrs. NJ G. Schmidling. to whom the
hotel belonged, is the heaviest loser.
Kansas sent more troops to the
union army than any other State ac-
cording to its population. There were
several southern states contributed to
the Confederate army still larger per
cent. of their male population than
Kansas gave to the federal army.
The other day two students of the
State University engaged in friendly
wrestle. In the fall one of them, G
r. Mechanism, wrenched his spina
column causing paralysis, and he dice
the day after. Mechanism lived a
Wyandotte, and was considered one Of
/ the brightest is the freshman class.
Considerable of a sensation wa.
created Friday by the announcement
| that Frank Jackson. the we'll known
stockman of the famous Maple Hill
| live stock farm, had made a hasty as
signment and skipped out for Canadi
or some unknown place. His liabili
ties are placed at $4,000. Jackson
father is the heaviest loser.
Quo warranto proceedings wer'
begun in the Supreme Court at Topek;
Tuesday by County Attorney Atwood
of Leavenworth, in the name of tn
State against J. H. Hunter, polio,
judge of the city, appointed by tn
police commissioners under the met
ropOlitan law passed in March last
The purpose of the action is to ties
the constitutionality of the law.
A fire started Saturday in an ole
elevator in Wichita near the freigh
depot of the Atchison. Topeka 4 SAINT
Fe and destroyed the building anC
contents. The elevator had been uset
for some time as a warehouse, ant
within was stored furniture valued a
$4,000, belonging to w. A. Awry
The loss is $4,000 The building wa
evidently set on fire by tramps sleep
ing there. Another warehouse WA
destroyed the night before in the sam
way.
Fred Haussler. who some tim
ago was released from the Empori
County Jail after somewhat pro
tracted incarceration for violating tn
ProhibitOry law, has entered sui
for $4,000 damages alleged to hav
been sustained by him by being con
fined in the county Jail, the buildin
having been condemned by the gram
jury of the county and also by tn
State and local boards of health a
being in an unfit condition in which I
keep prisoner. a similar case await
decision by the Supreme Court